Like what the Popcorn Hour Media Tank offers, but hate the name and the enclosure? Have a look at this knock-off called the SYVIO-200 HD Player (MSRP $200) that essentially offers the same features, firmware, and internal components as the Popcorn Hour A-100. However, unlike the Popcorn Hour A-100, this model has the updated HDMI v1.3 spec found in the latest A-110 model. No U.S. distributors have been announced, but CMI is offering up open invitations to interested parties. [via]

Feature Highlights:

The latest HD player, SYVIO-200 is featured by its HDMI 1.3Version,1080P reolution supported. It allows to pull in digital video, audio and photos from various sources for your enjoyment on customer’s HDTV or home theater setup

Can stream or playback customer’s digital media content from a variety of sources, such as your PC, NAS, digital camera, USB mass storage devices (flash drive, HDD, DVD drive), internal HDD and even directly from the Internet via the media service portal

It also serves as a NAS and a BitTorrent peer-to-peer down loader to eliminate the need to switch on a PC or other device for this purpose

The SYVIO-200 supports the latest high bitrate video formats (MPEG2 MP@HL, H.264 HP@L4.1, VC-1 AP@L3 in TS of at least 40Mbps) to give you up to 1080p high-definition videos

In recognition of advances in Internet TV, the A-100 supports peer-to-peer Internet TV streaming technology from SayaTV, as well as popular unicast Internet TV such as YouTube, Google video and metacafe via the media service portal

The A-100 firmware is upgradeable to support future media containers, codecs and features